Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] down on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unmistakably , though , he has come down on the side of the demonstrators and against Erich Honecker , the East German leader . |
| 2 | This remedy may come up after a Belladonna sore throat has gone down on the chest . |
| 3 | I 'd also taken stock of just how deep the ravine was a yard or so to my right — on a previous visit to this rocky Brecon summit I 'd looked down on a pair of RAF Tornadoes streaking through on a high-adrenalin exercise . |
| 4 | Because my head landed on his teeth it hurt me more than if I 'd smacked down on the bridge of his nose . |
| 5 | The family Rover also became bogged down on the beach road and his brother Anwar suffered a heart attack after spending a night on the open beach . |
| 6 | She suspects that she may get rather more exposure to outpatient clinics and theatre sessions than her medical colleagues because they get bogged down on the wards with tasks that she is not allowed to do . |
| 7 | Now they get knocked down on the roads . |
| 8 | ‘ Or you could have kept down on the platform , ’ Ace added . |
| 9 | A bi-partisan approach to foreign policy could be maintained in the most momentous ever commitment in US foreign policy , the North Atlantic Pact , but it had broken down on the issue of China even if ‘ the attack of the primitives ’ , as Acheson put it , had as much to do with Truman 's unexpected victory in the presidential election in 1948 and the consequent fury and frustration of the Republican Party . |
| 10 | Production day supervisor Bob Hodson illustrated the point : ‘ ICI phoned earlier to say the tanker with the morning delivery of phenol had broken down on the motorway and would n't be here until four o'clock . |
| 11 | She had detoured through the town 's central square on the way home and had sat down on a bench , raising her head to the trees . |
| 12 | One or two of the demonstrating ladies had sat down on the pavement ( they should never have shown Gandhi on TV ) and were singing ‘ the one with the waggerly tail … ’ with gusto . |
| 13 | If a bird had looked down on the quarry in the next few seconds it would have been amazed . |
| 14 | Now there was some dispute over whether Berlin or Bonn should be the capital , they 've come down on the side of Berlin , but is that dispute settled now ? |
| 15 | This time there was no knife , they just got him on the floor and it was just a fist which had come down on the man 's face again and again . |
| 16 | During August , Russia 's Constitutional Court had come down on the side of Izvestiya and Yeltsin , while the Prosecutor 's Office and the Russian Federal Property Fund had unsuccessfully supported the Supreme Soviet . |
| 17 | Her hand had come down on the spider and it had bitten her . |
| 18 | She wore her hair squeezed up into a ballooning Afro by the same red bandana that she had worn down on the dock the first time Trent had seen her . |
| 19 | He had settled down on the settee , watching her every move as she 'd put the kettle on and taken salad and cold meat from the fridge . |
| 20 | She was not proud to have been the cause of splitting her family up ; nor could she forget how her father 's love had turned to disgust ; and how could she easily reveal the shame which she had brought down on the Wards ? |
| 21 | Hammond moved from the doorway , picking up the map Kim had set down on the table . |
| 22 | Well , in actual fact we 've cut down on the boxing bit |
| 23 | White as any linen , she had sunk down on a rock . |
| 24 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton , the minister responsible for home affairs in Scotland , confirmed that the Government had backed down on a proposal to abolish a contributory band for those applicants seeking advice and assistance . |
| 25 | Ace 's finger remained clamped down on the trigger even after all seven bullets had gone and the slide had locked back in the ‘ empty ’ position . |
| 26 | ‘ We would deny any suggestion we have backed down on an agreement . |